Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6985297c0a5de0a6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.9 KB Created: 2021-06-26 21:46:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 377ba058a1e2d298bc41aff3369e68e2 SHA-1: df016906fda326f99fcf2436983e6a7aadc02e5c SHA-256: 6985297c0a5de0a689950d30c044dbe5807597336bcc7231d32e325e4c7d4572
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, specifically as a phishing trojan. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, likely intended to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of multiple external URIs and the 'link farm' heuristic strongly suggest a phishing or redirection attack vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • PDF link farm points to compromised-WordPress upload storage medium PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM
    PDF contains multiple clickable links, across many distinct hosts, whose targets are random-slug files parked in the upload directories of vulnerable WordPress form plugins (FormCraft, Super Forms). This is the hallmark of the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains hosted on compromised sites. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL https://www.properties-thassos.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qbcehnek6nlgg78mqi84h03uhe/67052856433.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://areicon.com/images/file/bajineti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hyderabadibiryanicorner.com/admin/images/file/52808298261.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://area34.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gc9fev64anr3jeellfef10r3i2/58605675825.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://namastehealth.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tnabco9uure2c6a2fc65962luo/latabudij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-clining.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/532e49279b89144c1ca34c1e78811d85/wibugorikem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://plswa.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4f234c66f0788bef8d6d6a9dfb4c639c/35280189221.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://centrosteadycam.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f1303578ef622048691b93a539da82bb/77178751547.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accurateverdicts.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c20f38949c4---jogebiwuzagogupifalenu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nobleanimalsanctuary.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmp/90540062729.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beribuket.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/89443da296c1f6512b23959d6233b2e5/bixumafufabedevew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.medicalalliedtraining.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c674ad58ccf---1414483083.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.carlosfunes.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073662323781---84169511906.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mp-hd.de/data/aktualnosci_imgs/file/sukofuvuxukoteneja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blog.crowdly.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cdcd512ea1---wudivogusofowipaxuganafof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.horisunmauritius.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2c8b16818be4e92328b26e7d9338341b/7022196423.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sva-jeanroze.com/xmedia/file/75641737903.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nt-module.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/28210405651.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pluckywize.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc2d61ca8bc---segapite.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://simonide.org/userfiles/file/waralukuriduwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anukulagrotech.com/userfiles/file/99643829271.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sirikulsteel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b54bdc9e9f4---47578492326.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bixenony.com/userfiles/files/tebegajob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gioiacompany.net/images/upload/file/rujadonazujaxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.infranetltd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bf9dd70a79---65576028753.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=popular+fads+in+the+1920sPDF link annotation
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000edbf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEDBF 11156 bytes
SHA-256: 8dd7b58359764f8537e0775bff61a7c664754e8a91db469a04a1abdbfc8be0ef
font_01_sfnt_off000107db.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x107DB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011fed.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11FED 17568 bytes
SHA-256: ad0a1d986b97aed8f8b5aae26fb946d3c4a8a350a906320a5ccd231794f88f60